Includes index.

Fourth Amendment standards : probable cause to search, searches, warrants, and exceptions to the legal requirements -- The concept of stop and frisk -- Arrest and seizure of the person -- Fourth Amendment searches and seizures : houses, persons, motor vehicles, and effects -- Special problem searches : administrative, inventory, school, airport, and work searches -- Principles of the exclusionary rule : remedies and exceptions to constitutional violations -- Miranda principles : Fifth and Sixth Amendment influences on police practice -- Confession and the privilege against self-incrimination -- Identification procedures : constitutional considerations -- The decision to prosecute : indictment and information -- Plea bargaining and guilty pleas : constitutional standards -- Pretrial criminal procedure : preliminary hearing, bail, right to counsel, speedy trial, double jeopardy, and collateral estoppel -- The trial : constitutional rights and trial practice : jury trial, right to counsel, due process, and equal protection -- Appellate practice and other post-trial remedies.